Lyrics for Comfortably Numb as interpreted by Demau Senae

Comfortably Numb Lyrics
Hello,
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
Come on now
I hear you're feeling down
I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts

There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb

Okay
Just a little pin prick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do belive it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
And I have become comfortably numb

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snarf_skater
01-19-2002

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This song is scary because it describes heroine use in such a pretty fashion. I've never done it myself, but there have been times I've been fucked up enough to feel this way.

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tess
01-23-2002

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I can totally relate to this song... I haven't done it either (taking drugs), but I can understand the desire to feel COMFORTABLY NUMB.... not to feel any pain, no to feel anything whatsoever... sometimes life just hurts so much :(

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SILVERCHAIR101
01-27-2002

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man david gilmour was a god. This song embodies all of drugs and how they help the pain. I don't do heroin either but i listened to this song for hours whenever im stoned

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SILVERCHAIR101
01-27-2002

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man david gilmour was a god. This song embodies all of drugs and how they help the pain. I don't do heroin either but i listened to this song for hours whenever im stoned

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thisboy
01-27-2002

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I think this song captures drugs very well. Synthetic happiness, escaping pain through substances. I think a lot of people that have experimented with drugs can relate. When you just get overwhelmed by emotions and you feel so hurt that you would rather be numb than to care. Screwed up stuff.

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PunKinDrubliC
02-07-2002

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Dave Gilmour did this song because when he was performing he was so drug fucked that he needed a hit just to get him through the show.

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piper
02-08-2002

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the beginning is the devil/god talking to him, coaxing him into taking what he offers. he accepts and is glorifying the feeling, like he was a happy child. all he wants is to not feel the pain. to be excluded from society and not hear anyone and to be alone is a comfortable numb for him. bc the world causes him pain and numb is better.

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PunKinDrubliC
02-11-2002

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The song was basically about how one if the guys had to take heroin just to get himslef through the show, as heard in these lines:

Ok.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more Aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working. Good.
That'll keep you going for the show.
Come on it's time to go.




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PunKinDrubliC
02-13-2002

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Ok I have a bit more info now.
The song was written by Dave Gilmour but was sung about Roger Waters who needed the drugs to get through the show.

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dancingbears
03-23-2002

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the guitar work touches me more than the words

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BradNZ
03-30-2002

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All you wankers don't have a fucking clue what this song is about. It is absolutly nothing to do with stupid drugs whatsoever. The line about the 'pin prick' is refering to when Roger Waters had to have a booster shot in order to go on stage during a tour once when he was suffering from hepatites. the song is basically about the first childhood experience we have of the pain of being alive and how from then on life becomes more and more of a struggle. Eventually after years of all this we become numb to our emotions and feelings as one pain after another piles up on top of us. The only reaction is to become desensitised to the pain, which eventually causes us to lose touch with our feelings and become numb. Get your facts right before you go talking absolut fucking bullshit about Pink Floyd. The only one who ever took drugs was 'Syd' Barrett, and they were hallucinogens not opiates, the others took less drugs than any other band in the 60's or 70's.

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thedealer
04-10-2002

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the song does have to do more with feelings and emotions rather than drugs. the wall album was based on the bands childhood, feelings and war, pink floyd did never made any songs about drugs.

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mykothopea
04-15-2002

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I always kinda figured one of the band members found a little mouse (like in The Wall) and got sad as he watched it die.

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tha420bunny
04-15-2002

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y cany i hav

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Jaspin Demothenese
04-16-2002

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See...how I always saw this song was as a sick or dying man that was in severe pain. The speaker at the beginning is a doctor or medic of some sort. Hense the "I need some information, first/Just the basic facts/Can you show me where it hurts."

The next stanza is, of course, the man in pain speaking. He is reliving a childhood experiance, perhaps the first time he was hurt or sick. At this point he is becoming so engroused in his feelings and the pain that it all just stops hurting. The only thing he can concentrait on is the childhood experiance that he has forgotten but is trying to grasp now. The first time he says comfortably numb means he has lost all sense of reality and is just in his mind, completely lost from the world and engrossed so much into this memory from his past.

Now, the next time the doctor speaks to him, he is giving him a shot, or fixing him in some way. In the line "That'll keep you going through the show" I believe that the "show" is either life, or going with the theme of The Wall album and movie, war.

The last stanza is of course, him recovering. But in a very different way. He still cannot hear the doctor at first, and is still in his memory. Slowly, though, the memory begins to fade and slip away from him. The second time he is "comfortably numb" is either because of the doctors drugs, the fact that he does not want to go on anymore, or a combination of the both.

But other than the doctors drugs...there are no drugs involved in this.

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zonker
04-17-2002

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songs from the wall are almost impossible to decipher for many reasons. First of all, the story is loosely based around the lives of Syd Barret and to a lesser degree Roger Waters, but alot of the plot is just theatrics used for novelty. Second of all, no song can be taken out of context, the story is of a troubled, detached rock star caught up in the frenzy of the lifestyle, but if we only read the lyrics of just one song, it looks like he's making drugs out to be some kind of magical potion that can fix everything, while infact he is quite unsettled by the experience. Third of all, too many people just sit around smoking pot and watching the wall. not that the wall is bad, i myself have watched it a disgusting amount of times, but people think they "figured it out" when the movie is just showing roger waters visual interpretation of his song. music is a product, so listen to it and come up with your own ideas instead of simply regurgitating what happened in "The Wall"

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soma
04-17-2002

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Brad is correct..this song has nothing to do with drugs.
It comes from a true story in which Bass player/lyricist Roger Waters had food poisoning and needed a shot of adreneline to feel well enough to play the show.
The lines..

Can you stand up?
I do belive it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

Is the administrator of the drugs, seeing the correct affects on Roger, and it goes further by saying that the record companies just wanted a show and did not have a care in the world for the safety of the performer..

The verses sung by David Gilmour are the memories Pink (lead character in The Wall) has after getting the adreneline injection, remembering a childhood sickness which almost became fatal.

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BlindReef
04-18-2002

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Yeah, id agree. The first time I heard this song i was really young, and it was on the movie. I guess i always just pictured pink singing about exactly what was happening in that scene. Although Zonker may be on to something by telling us to listen to the music and come up with our own ideas, the main target of most of these comments have been to determine what Waters and Berret were thinking and feeling when this song was written.

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djfooboo
04-19-2002

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zonker is right, you cant really evr decipher the wall. I have seen it a good 3 dozen times (the dvd with the lyrics on) and i always find something new that override my previous thoughts

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Paradox
04-26-2002

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I don't have anything to say that already hasn't been said, but this is my favorite song. The solo at the end is just...heavenly...

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MetaLuna
04-26-2002

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Uh.

Certain lines of this song were directly taken from a book about teenage drug use that was published loooooonng before The Wall was even conceived, let alone written. I can't remember the title of the book, but I found it in my school's library, and was quite shocked to see that there was a young boy quoted as saying, when describing his drug experience, "It's like, your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying. You just feel comfortably numb."

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Centri_Alpha
05-15-2002

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Brad is completely right about this song......The Wall is all a big story....you can just pull apart each song and try to interpret them individually.....they are a whole. The Wall is a story about the life of the charactor "Pink". This charactor relates to both lead singers of Pink Floyd, and in different ways.

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dr.jacob
05-24-2002

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thats nice. dont get all defensive when someone interprets the song "wrong" you gay fish. it means something different to almost everyone and who the heck are you to tell ppl what the song has to mean to them? i do believe that you have the mindset of a goat- raping bean-harvester. thank you very much. its a great song.

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sean7711
05-27-2002

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yea the drug interpretations are good and so are the other ones. no one reall knows 100% what this written about, so anyone that has interpretations should be welcomed here with arms wide open (no creed pun) and yes, the solos are heavenly

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pink_angel016
05-29-2002

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I'd just like to say that this song was not based on any one band member's life. If any, it was based on the life of "Syd" Barrett. I've seen "The Wall" more times than I can count, and on the DVD version of it, you can listen to commentary of Roger Waters and the director, Alan Parker. The beginning scene where it shows "Pink" sitting in the chair with the cigarette burnt to the filter and the ashes haven't fallen, he explains how he once found "Syd" in the same position. That he was so comfortably numb he hadn't noticed the burning on his fingers. He also speaks of how, yes BradNZ, they were all on drugs during most of their shows. So I do think that this song does relate to drugs, but not directly. I think the song is more about how "Pink" was mentally and emotionally very tired and stressed out by all the "bricks" in his wall. I think "The Wall" shows a very good iinterpretation of the song. This is just my opinion. Don't get pissed off if it's not your's also.

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